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Monday, March 08, 2004

Season's first A-meet

 

The first A-meet of the year is in a bit under two weeks at a place called Hawn State Park. It should be a blast.

Check out some photos and the terrain and map clips.

Hawn was first used in 1984. Running M20, I won my first U.S. Championship. I've been back to Hawn a couple of times since then, but not since 1988 if I remember correctly. This time I'm running M40 for the first time.

The preliminary entry list shows a couple of interesting names on the red course. I'm looking forward to running against Nadim (M40), Peggy (F21), Robbie Paddock (M20), Frank Skorina (M40) and Peter Gagarin (M45). Nadim and Peggy are both struggling with injuries.

Peggy -- should be no trouble.
Nadim -- injured recently. But, he's faster than me. I've got the edge in an O' race, but on any given day Nadim could beat me. We had a great head-to-head race at the Harriman relay last spring.
Robbie -- he's faster than me but can be uneven. He's improving all the time.
Frank -- I'll be disappointed if I don't beat Frank. Frank hosted me for a few months when I was doing some mapping in Sweden.
Peter -- I've been watching his training log at Attackpoint and it looks like he's had some decent training. He's managed to train consistently without any big injuries. Peter is always good competition. He's very steady -- not many bad runs. I'm not sure who's running faster these days. I hope I am. But, I'm not sure of it. On a downhill (especially a rocky one), I can't keep up.

I gave some serious thought to running M21 at Hawn. I changed my mind when I felt like my training wasn't working quite right. I still plan (hope) to run M21 at a few races this spring.

And now to the video tape

Steve Brown shot some Quick Time videos at yesterday's race at Monkey Mountain. Check out the video of me jumping over a bit of a rock outcrop on the way to the last control.

posted by Michael | 8:45 PM

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